Frontline Insights

Nuanced insights and fresh perspectives on today’s most pressing issues and forces shaping our world

| Learning & Development

Beyond playing safe: Measuring the returns on leadership development investment

Is your investment in leadership development truly delivering and how? Too often this question is left to chance or to big names, and rarely measured with rigour.

| Rethinking Growth

The untold cost of economic growth in a finite world

We’ve embraced a growth model that defies limits and the consequences are now surfacing through climate strain, institutional fragility, and social decline.

| China

Beyond roads and railways: What 12 years of Belt and Road Initiative have built

The Belt and Road Initiative is no longer about whether it matters, but how it shapes a fractured, multipolar world.

| Climate & Conflict

Conflict is climate’s greatest overlooked enemy. Here’s why.

Even ESG standards and leading sustainability frameworks often overlook conflict’s critical role in driving climate and ecological destruction.

| Learning Culture

Most companies are regressing on learning and development

Our Founder and CEO, Chandran Nair, unpacks how “anti-learning” has taken root in today’s corporate world—and what it takes to change course.

| Business Plan | Global Leaders Programme 2025

Scaling Rural Returns: A Tech-Driven Solution to Unlock SME Potential

Transforming rural SMEs into engines of prosperity requires integrated, scalable solutions that combine commercial viability with social impact.

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